Video: The O'Reilly vs. Stewart debate

May 17, 2011|By Luke Broadwater

We've been waiting all weekend for the heavyweight debate over rapper Common's invitation to a White House poetry reading. Monday night, it finally happened, as Comedy Central's Jon Stewart sat down across the table from Fox News' Bill O'Reilly.

O'Reilly made the case that White House guests should be thoroughly vetted and be "almost unimpeachable."

Stewart argued that Common was not celebrating cop killing with some of his lyrics, but merely arguing that he believed certain convicted murderers were actually innocent.